Federal government OKs extension of Indiana's Medicaid pilot program

9:14 PM,
Sep. 3, 2013

Molly White, Indianapolis, has her blood pressure taken by MedTech College School of Nursing student Ashley Skipper, left, as White's children Kayla and Noah look on during a free health screening sponsored by Managed Health Services and the Healthy Indiana Plan.

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President Barack Obama's health care overhaul envisioned that about half of Indiana's uninsured residents would get coverage through an expansion of Medicaid, the jointly run federal and state health program for the poor.

A compromise that GOP Gov. Mike Pence reached with the Obama administration Tuesday would let tens of thousands of low-income Hoosiers continue to get health care next year through an alternative Medicaid program that includes cost sharing and fewer benefits.

And the deal leaves up in the air whether Indiana will see a full expansion of Medicaid to cover hundreds of ...